Girish Chowdhary is the director of DAS laboratory and Assistant Professor. Girish has a Ph.D. degree from Georgia Institute of Technology. He then spent around two years at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics as a postdoctoral associate. Prior to coming to Georgia Tech, he spent three years working as a research engineer with the German Aerospace Center’s (DLR’s) Institute for Flight Systems Technology in Braunschweig, Germany. He holds a BE with honors from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Girish is the author of several peer-reviewed publications spanning the area of adaptive control, spatiotemporal modeling, autonomy and decision making, LIDAR-based perception for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), and GPS denied navigation.